State College Downtown Rotary Weekly Newsletter, Paul Rutter-Editor

Program: Club Assembly
Auction Item: Turley
Invocation: Aungst
Note Taker: Bedell
Thank speaker: n/a
future assignments

May 15 (unconfirmed 5/7/03)
May 15 Food Bank Empty Bowl at State College High School
May 22 Inbound Youth Exchange (Ron)
May 29 Minitab Tour at Minitab
May 31-June 2 Memorial Day Volleyball Tournament Fundraiser
June 5- Club Assembly
June-Special Olympics

Visiting Rotarians: Dan Keene from the evening club and Geoff Wilson of the evening club.
Make-ups turned in: None
Guests: Carolyn Follet, PHF, a guest of PDG Carol Walsh
50/50: Mary Dearmitt drew the 3 of spades. There are 47 cards remaining. The pot has 5 weeks in it and I imagine about $100.
Auction: The auction item was provide by Ron Taverno. It was dinner at the Victorian Manor and desser at Meyer Dairy. Spirited bidding occurred again thsi week with the winning bid coming from Brian Christian at $40.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: (Please send announcements for the newsletter to Paul)

5/4 Lederer Memorial Ice Cream
Moose, Taverno, Brytczuk, Mose, Coble, King, Rutter, Eberly, Walsh, Held, Christian, Kaufman, Bell, Meckstroth, Dayananda, Goldstein

5/3 Lederer Park Clean up
Brytczuk, Gambone, Abramson, Moose, K.Kerner, Taverno, Domalski, Held, Kauffman, Meckstroth, Martin, Turley, Hickey, Rawson

5/2-4 District Assembly
Walsh, Hill, Eberly, Held, Fetter, Moose

Clean for Gene"at the Lederer Park: Gary Brytczuk, Chuck Gambone, Bonnie Abramson (kudos for bringing the donuts, OJ, and water), Meg & Clark Moose, Chris Hickey, Scott Rawson, Dick & Betsy Held, Terry Edwards, Kelly Kerner plus Bob & Connie Kerner plus Clark & Anastasia Kerner, Rose Kauffman, Chris Turley, Mark Meckstroth, Ranier Domalski, Ron Taverno, and Leanne & Jeff Martin.
Memorial Service ice cream helpers: Gary Brytczuk, James Dayananda, Hugh Mose, Carol Walsh, Jim Eberly, Meg & Clark Moose, Rose Kauffman, Jana King, Marshall Goldstein, Paul Rutter, Mark Meckstroth, and Brian Christian
The evening club's auction is this week.
Gary Peterson, President of the Evening club, is looking for homes for the evening club's exchange student.
The Clearfield and Curwensville Rotary club is holding their second annual golf tournament on Saturday, May 10 at Grandview Gold Club. They didn't send an email contact or a phone contact. Sorry!
The Rotaract club is now an official Penn State club. Thanks to Geoff and Todd for their work in that regard.
Discussions are still underway regarding the club's centennial project. Right now we are trying to do something in the parklet near Memorial Field with the evening club.
Spring Clean-up at Lederer Park and lunch at Outback is May 3rd. We will meet at the park at 8:30 and then afterwards Outback is providing lunch at Outback near the Lowes store on the way to Toftrees.
There will be a memorial for Eugene Lederer at 2:00 on May 4th in Lederer Park. We are serving dixie cup ice cream (Gene's favorite) at the service. Please sign up to help. There will also be a bus to take people to the park from the old Bi-Lo in South Hills shopping center parking lot since the park has limited parking.For Rotarians working please wear your Rotary Shirts.
The club has a list serv. All active members are on it. The email address for it is SCDTROTARY-@LISTS.PSU.EDU. It only works if you are a subscriber so if you aren't on it and want to know even more about the club Email Paul Rutter to see about your admission. It is a private listserv not open to the public. If you are already on it and want help with it please call or email me.
We are also working on creating a charitable foundation. The details are being worked out now.

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Previous Week's Speaker: South Central Centre Co. Transportation Study

Mark Whitfield introduced the team of Brian St. John and Joseph Livia to speak to us about the upgrade of hwy 322 from 7 mountains to the 322 by-pass.

Brian opened things up speakign to us in his last public appearance as a singel man. Brian is a civil engineer and transportation engineer that works for McCormack Tayopr and Associates. Brian told us about the 8 different plans that had been whittled down from upwards of 27 plans. The plans will take highway 322 from where it ends near Potter's MIlls and extends it in some fashion to eneable traffic to flow in a safer path to the higwhay 322 by pass or the new Highway 220 that runs in to I-80.

They've been at it since 1999 and are only now just at the recommendation phase.They hope to have a complete environmental impact statement by 2005.At that point unless money evolves for development the paln might sit for 12 years.

Member Todd Bacastow put forward a good wquestion about that asking that demographic trends will undoubtedly change by the time the project might commence, what happened to plans developed 7 years past?

Joe spoke to us from his background as an environmental engineer regarding environmental concerns, building tunnels or tearing down mountains to put roads through.

There is a Web site to learn more, http://www.scccts.org.

This week’s note taker: Ellie Beaver

DATE	AUCTION	INVOCATION	NOTES	THANKS
May 15	Walsh	Bacastow	Bell	Martin
May 22	Whitfield	Beaver	Brytczuk	Meckstroth
May 29	Zimbler	Bedell	Christian	Mose
June 5	Abramson	Bell	Coble	Assembly
June 12	Aungst	Brytczuk	Davis	Murray
June 19	Bacastow	Christian	Dayananda	Myrick
June 26	Beaver	Coble	Dearmitt	Potalivo
	July's to be published later

Contact club webmaster: Paul Rutter